FOOD | HEALTH | DEMOCRACY
FOOD | HEALTH | DEMOCRACY
Cows are not the problem. It’s the way cattle and livestock are managed and farmed that is creating a climate problem. “It’s not the cow, it’s the how,” is the popular refrain among regnerative farmers, ranchers, and soil health advocates leading the reform of our current food and agricultural system.
FOOD SAFETY NEWS | Dan Flynn | August 27, 2025 Newton’s Third Law of Motion is that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. An example of this is currently playing out with pesticides and food safety…
A group of health advocates, including Center for Food Safety, and represented by Earthjustice sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in late December to force the agency to reevaluate its decades-old authorizations for the use of certain phthalates in…
Sustainable Pulse | July 2, 2025 A recent study confirming the herbicide’s carcinogenic potential has been the subject of fierce criticism. However, this criticism is based on flawed scientific grounds, Le Monde has reported. The recent publication of a study…
Originally published on Save Our Seeds | GMWatch | Beyond GM | June 23, 2025 Whatever happened to GM Golden Rice? And wasn’t GM salmon supposed to revolutionise aquaculture? Three decades after the first GMO crops were planted, Save Our…
PR Newswire | April 7, 2025 Edacious, The Bionutrient Institute, and Utah State University collaborate to uncover the relationship between farming systems, food quality, and human health MARLBOROUGH, Mass., April 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — What makes one cut of beef…
U.S. RIGHT TO KNOW | Natasha Gilbert | January 30, 2025 This article was co-published with Sierra. Among all the contaminants in drinking water, nitrates are one of the most pervasive. They leach from chemical fertilizers and animal manure to…
THE NEW LEDE | DOUGLAS MAIN | FEBRUARY 27 2025 A new study adds to evidence that farmers in the US corn belt have over-planted a type of genetically modified (GM) corn, leading to estimated losses of more than $1 billion as…
Source: Des Moines Register | by Sabine Martin | February 10, 2025 Hardin County farmer Nick Schutt held up a photo of his late sister, Tammy, in the Iowa Capitol rotunda Monday as he described how several members of his…
Source: Beyond Pesticides | Study | Date: 8/11/2024 A study in the journal Biology and Fertility of Soils has confirmed once again that organic agriculture contributes significantly to soil health, improving ecological functions that are harmed by conventional, chemical-intensive farming practices. Organic soil…
Source: Grist | by Ayurella Horn-Muller | August 29, 2024 Ground-breaking “ecoacoustics” use underground critter concerts to monitor a hidden ecosystem. Think back to the last concert you went to. Now replace the music that rang through the venue with…